A Journey of Musical Discovery
Submitted by OGRastamon on Wed, 08/22/2007 - 03:26
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- The Jeremiah Bullfrog Song (Three Dog Night's 'Joy to the World').
- Getting singled out in a first grade music appreciation exercise in which we closed our eyes and followed 'The Flight of the Bumblebee' with our finger.
- Requesting Eddie Money's 'Two Ticket to Paradise' on So. Cal. KBBQ and being told "We don't play that kinda music, son." so I asked them to play George Jone's 'White Lightning'.
- Introduced to KISS by friends Dirk and Joel.
- Introduced to The Beatles by Dirk's big brother Chris. Goodnight KISS.
- The Dr. Demento Show. Four live hours on KMET.
- The first album bought with my own money. The XANADU soundtrack.
- I WANT MY MTV!
- John Hughes movies.
- Buying two Oingo Boingo albums (Nothing to Fear and Good For Your Soul) just because I liked the name and cover art.
- Rodney Bingenheimer on KROQ.
- Salzer's Music in Ventura, CA.
- The Grateful Dead aren't scary devil music but country with long acid-influenced guitar solos.
- SCARY DEVIL MUSIC!
- Reintroduced to They Might Be Giants as more than a novelty by friends Laura and Rachelle.
- Introduced to Tom Waits, The Lounge Lizards, and Tonio K by friend John.
- Introduced to XTC and schooled in psychedelia (among many other things) by friend Jeff.
- NPR on KCRW.
- Pandora Internet Radio.
Interesting journey. I like the idea of this list.
Tonio K - Wow, that's a name I don't run across much any more...
Shalom, y'all!
L. Bangs (Not the La Bomba, sadly enough...)